I remember the birth of my son Lucas, the thing got serious when I stopped pushing in some contractions. My midwife was quite upset and I laugh like a little girl, in a strict tone she told me "Don't lose me any more contractions, push", to this we added the "push, push" of everyone present in the delivery room.
I think that all of us who have gone through a birth know the real meaning of the word "push." Well, it seems that pushing does not bring many benefits in the period of expulsion.
This is stated by a clinical trial conducted at the University of Texas Medical Center (USA) published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that concludes that Encouraging women to push during contractions does not significantly decrease the duration of labor. On the contrary they found that pushing can increase the risk of problems in the urinary bladder and pelvic floor. Steve Bloom, lead author of the study and chief and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Center says it is better for the parturient to do what makes her feel better.
For the study, the researchers focused on the second part of childbirth, the moment when the cervix is dilated and the baby begins to descend ... In the investigation involved 320 women who were going to give birth for the first time, had pregnancies without complications and did not receive epidural anesthesia. Of them, randomly, 163 were encouraged to push 10 seconds during each contraction and the other 157 were told to do what was most natural to them. In the first group, the duration of the second phase of labor was shortened by an average of about 13 minutes, from 59 to 46 minutes.
